Most servers are not able to access the Google API.
Invidious report of the same(ish) problem: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4045#issuecomment-1674373088
Most people’s phones actually do, especially iPhone users, so that’s not true.
So don’t buy a fucking iPhone or a Google Pixel or whatever, it’s your choice.
Meaning now I cannot use any phone and am now locked out of the modern age.
Your refusal to admit a problem does not remove that problem.
There are plenty of options for running Android distributions free of Google influence.